pleasure principle

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The pastry chef Grayson Claes, who comes to Sona from Eleven Madison Park, has a keen sense of how to complicate a dessert without losing the pleasure principle.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2021

But unlike Salonen’s moody Pollux and frenzied Castor, Partch applied the pleasure principle.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2019

When it comes to eating, I believe in Freud’s pleasure principle: I avoid all pain.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2019

Strangely, the film’s modest dramatic virtues work actively against the pleasure principle and diminish the film’s strongest elements.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2015

The transition from the pleasure principle to that of fact is the most important advance in the development of the ego.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund